NET 331
Computer Networks Fundamentals

Teacher: Bushra Zaher

Website: NET331NET.wikispaces.com

Email: Zaher.students.HWs@gmil.com

Reference Book:

- "Data Communication and Networking",by Behrouz A Forouzan, McGraw Hill, 2006 (or the Latest Edition).

Recommended books:

- "Data and Computer Communications", by William Stallings, Prentice Hall, The Latest Edition.
- "Local Area Networks", by P. Regan, Prentice-Hall, The Latest Edition.

Mark Distribution

Exam........................W#........Date...........Mark

Quiz 1.........................4.......18th Feb..............5

MID .1.........................6........5th Mar..............15

Quiz 2.........................10.......30th Mar............5

MID 2..........................13 .....20th Apr.............15

Quiz 3.........................15......7th Apr...............5.....

Project............................................................10

Tutorial ....................,.....................................10....

Final .............................................................40..............

Total .............................................................100..........................................................

Topics:

Chapter	Topic
		1 (Jan 27th)
Chapter 1	Introduction	2 (Feb 2nd)
Chapter 2 and 3.6	Layered Architecture TCP/IP Protocol Suite Network Addressing Performance Metrics	3 (Feb 9th)
Chapter 7 + 8.2	Transmission Media Datagram Networks	4 (Feb 16th)
8.3, 10.1, 10.4 and 10.5	Virtual-circuit Networks Error Detection and correction	5 (Feb 23rd)
	MIDTERM 1	6 (Mar 2nd)
Chapter 11	Data Link Control	7 (Mar 9th)
Chapter 11, 12.1 and 12.3	Data Link Control Multiple Access	8 (March 16th)
	BREAK	9 (March 23rd)
13.1, 13.2, 14.1	Wired LANs: Ethernet Wireless LANs: Wifi	10 (March 30th)
Chapter 19, 20.1 and 20.2	Network Layer: - Logical Addressing - Internet Protocol	11 (Apr 6th)
21.1, 21.2, 22.1 and 22.2	Network Layer: - Address Mapping - ICMP - Delivery and forwarding	12 (Apr 13th)
	MIDTERM 2	13 (Apr 20th)
22.3, 23.1, 23.2, 23.3	Network Layer: Routing Transport Layer	14 (Apr 27th)
Chapter 26, Chapter 27th	Network Applications, HTTP and WWW	15 (May 4th)
	Comprehensive Review	16 (May 11th)
	FINAL	17 (May 18th)

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